It all looks good, the deep brooding atmosphere and you have managed to get enough light to the eyes each time. I like the background as well, sort of a wispy smokiness going on.

And I really like F9, that is a great aperture, more people should be using F9 that's for sure!

I see you've gone to Godox.... Seems to be an ongoing trend as they are offering more and more to Pentax users.

Another amazing small creature expertly revealed! I think the diffusion has worked well as I imagine the glare and reflections on this subject would be very challenging.

That has a real brightness and freshness to it!

A great use of (lock) downtime!

Thankfully those of us lucky enough to live in beautiful surroundings can still indulge ourselves with our woodland walks... Once a day of course!

Thanks for that little peek Philip. I have still been able to find a number of quiet and isolated places in the hills and woodlands around here, so our lot have not really been locked down. It's a lovely spring so far as well, just a bit spoilt by the surreal world we inhabit at present and general anxieties.

Yes, that's what the 28-105 really can do! Agreed, nicely spotted and with a lot of warmth in the colours.... But you could help the lens out a bit by actually doing some sharpening across the focus plane.

Two of my favourite, often revisited garden destinations, Hever Castle (Kent) and Heathfield House (nr Croydon).

I have found a number of my DNG files from these places not yet used, as I explore the back catalogue and continue to edit on the go and on mobile, using the Snapseed App on my Android phone.

All with the K7 (what else? :wink and the Hever ones use the DA18-55 MKII, while the Heathfield ones use the D FA28-105.

Hever Castle and Gardens....




















Heathfield House And Garden




















Thanks for your interest and views..... 😉

Very delicate colours, the soft purple, green and then blue behind make a kind of layered effect, giving depth.

That's a funny kind of vignette there Philip... an inverse vignette (what's a word for the opposite of vignette, where the corners get brighter not darker....?). Is this a 'thing'... I wasn't aware of it and certainly wouldn't have thought of it.

It looks more like something that redbusa99 would do!

I really like the colours here (except No 4 which needs a tweak of tint towards purple), soft and subtle without overdosing on orange and red!

The big sky and clouds in the last one are spectacular.

I like the odd, observational angles, and the focus on the mundane...a tradesmans entrance view of things. Nice exposure control with the high key emphasis too.

I'm not liking the black and white here though. I think they are crying out to burst into colour, and I'm not convinced that what contrast there is can sustain them, even if you stretched it out to extremes with your blacks. This almost works with the boat and the bins, but what you've really got there is a mono colour pop, with no colour!

The best one, given your treatment, is No7, because of the lovely gradations of tones, shadow play and the revealing of textures.... Qualities that are lacking in all the others.